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15,000 Cleaners Close Today Protesting Persecution

An estimated 25,000 employers and workers in 15,000 cleaning and dyeing establishments will close between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in protest against German persecution. Vicotor Ridder, publisher of the New York Staats-Zeitung, declared in a statement in the German daily that he would speak at the Carnegie Hall Protest meeting on persecution on […]

December 8, 1938
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An estimated 25,000 employers and workers in 15,000 cleaning and dyeing establishments will close between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in protest against German persecution. Vicotor Ridder, publisher of the New York Staats-Zeitung, declared in a statement in the German daily that he would speak at the Carnegie Hall Protest meeting on persecution on Friday to demonstrate Germans’ opposition to the Reich oppression. He pointed out that feeling against Germans was rising in the United States. Meanwhile, city $400 daily. A campaign for $10,000 to aid refugee students was opened at Harvard University yesterday with a public meeting addressed by Eddie Cantor, who contributed $500. A similar drive will be launched at Yale soon.

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